June 23rd & 26th, 1976 - Marvel UK, 50 years ago this week.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***We're all wallowing in the highs and lows of the World Cup, right now, as our favourite countries battle it out to become champions of the globe.But, this week in 1976, it was the European Championship that was on our minds. And its final was won by Czechoslovakia who beat West Germany 5–3 on penalties after the game ended 2–2.This, of course, means the final was contested by two nations that no longer exist. Has that happened before or since in a major championship?I cannot say.Things were clearly looking up for those two countries but, in the land we know as Canada, the entire population was looking up, as the planet's tallest free-standing man-made structure, Toronto's CN Tower, opened its doors to the public.Rising almost as high as that was the good old-fashioned British thermometer.And that's because June 26th saw the UK heatwave hit 95 °F (35 °C).Hot stuff indeed.But…